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LIVE: Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle Faces Grilling Over Trump's Assassination Attempt | House Oversight Committee Hearing | GOP Oversight | CNBC TV18

United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Monday that her agency “failed” its mission during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump earlier this month.
“The Secret Service’s solemn mission is to protect our nation’s leaders. On July 13th, we failed,” the director is expected to tell lawmakers, according to prepared remarks reviewed by CNN. “As the Director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse.”
The agency, Cheatle is expected to say, “must learn what happened and I will move heaven and earth to ensure an incident like July 13th does not happen again. Thinking about what we should have done differently is never far from my thoughts.”

In her testimony – alone and under subpoena – Cheatle will be forced to provide many answers to what is essentially a single question: How did the Secret Service’s biggest failure in four decades happen under her watch?
In the days following the attempted assassination, Cheatle has done no press conferences and very few interviews. Monday’s hearing will mark the first opportunity for a lengthy dive into the security failures at Trump’s July 13 rally.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Sunday promised the hearing would be extensive and detailed.

Cheatle is “going to have about a six-hour hearing, and she’s going to have hundreds of questions that she’s going to have to answer,” Comer said on “Fox News Sunday.”

In his opening statement Monday, released before the hearing, Comer said Cheatle should resign and noted that so far, she has refused to do so.

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